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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-03
NEBRASKA CONFERENCE.

The annual State Conference Of Uni
versalists met at York, York Co., Aug. ID,
1887. In the absence of the President,
Rev. r. s. Kellerman was chosen tempo
rary chairman. On call of delegates,
only the Lincoln and York parishes re-
sponded.
1t was voted that all Universalists
present be invited to seats in the Confer
ence and to take part in it's deliberations.
The minutes of the last annual Confer
ence were read and approved.
A call for the appointment of the stand
ing committees was made, whereupon
the followingwere chosen:
COMMITTEE ON RELIGIOUS SERvIoEs:-
Revs. r. s. Kellermsn, A. A. Snow and
Mrs. Ellen Stockton. Business: Rev.
E. Fl. Chaplin, @. P. Culver and J. ID. p.
Small.
NoM1NArIoNs:- P. Cplver, Mrs.
Howe and Mrs. Coates.
At this point a recess of thirty mi0utes
was taken to give the several committees
time to prepare their reports. At the
expiration of this time, the Conference
reconvened, and the Committee on Per-
manent Organization reported as follows;
President-Rev. E. Fl. Chspip, Lin
coin.
Vice Prssidenty, Mrs. j. liner, York.
Recording Seeretary-Mrs. Ellen Stock
ton, Lincoln.
Corresponding Secretary. ID. P,
Small, York.
Tceasurer-C. P Calver, Lincoln.
These nominees were unanimously
elected for the ensuing year.
Executive CoMMITTEE:-Mrs. j. Itner,
OF York; ex-officio chairman, Rev. E. IL.
Chaplin, and Mrs. Juliet Howe.
The Committee on Religious Services
reported the following order Of business;
For Saturdays services: Business meet
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ghe anteriur.

ILLIN0IS.-ChicagO and Vicinity
Our three city churches, and those in
Englewood, Oak Park, and also Blue Is
land, will be open next Sunday, with the
pastors in the pulpit. The experiment
on the West Side of keeping open church
during vacation, has again this season
proved it's usefulness. Good congrega-
tons have been present at each service
during the month, and the sermons of
Rev. Mr.. Whitney and DIR. Rexford have
been highly enjoyed by the people. Last
Sunday the congregation was unusually
large, and we observed among those pre-
sent, visitors from st. Paul's, Church Of
Our Father, Blue Island, Woodlswn Park
and other of our congregations.
MICHIGAN.-Lans Services were
resumed here by the pastor. Rev. l.. Il.
Squires, early in August, and all depart
ments Of church work are in active oper-
alton. The Literary and Social Union
has begun regular meetings az a Con
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-03
INDIANA.

The forty-first session of the White
Water Association convened with the
friends at Devon, August 20. There were
delegates present from five churches. and
while we were few in number, all seemed
endued with desire to take hold and do
all they could to make the meetings
pleasant and profitable. The time was
too much taken up with routine bust
ness and not enough religious meetings,
without which such gatherings are un-
interesting to outsiders. The reports
showed that within the Association dur
ing the last year the work had been kept
up and there seems to be an earnest de-
sire among the people to take hold and
make the work more OF a success the
coming year. Let us all strive that we
may keep up the interest and glorious
results will surely follow. The officers
for the ensuing year are: James Ham,
mond, Moderator; 8. J. Merrill, Clerk;
W. p. Best, Treasurer.
The Association voted to hold it's next
session with the Union Church, in Au-
gust, 1888, Br. 81. N. Brown to preach the
occasional sermon. Rev. 7. s. Guthrie
preached Saturday evening, and held a
basket meeting on Sunday, preaching
two excellent sermons to large and at
tentive audiences. He also preached in the
evening, at which time two united them
selves with the Devon Church. 1t was
our first visit among the friends at Devon,
but we earnestly hope it will not be our
last. 1t is seldom we find pleasenter
or more sociable people, each seeming TO
vie with the other in making our stay
pleasant. s. j. MERRILL
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OREGON Good Words from a Visit
Or.-Rev. Lee Fairchild writes: "June 4, I
left Lewiston for McMinnville, Oregon,
where the State Convention of Universal
lists was held, beginning jane 8. Ihear a
report of the meeting appeared in THE
UNIvERsALIsT. In this connection let us
say with emphasis that if there be any
minister in the East who desires to work
in a promising field. that such field
can be found at McMinnville. address
j. @. "copper"
ANY one going to McMinnville will
have the influence and help of the saint
ly and popular DIR. Elliot, Unitarian min
lister of Portland.
THE whole people seemed 60 hear with
gladness the broader and more hopeful
presentation OF the gospel. We visited the
Sound country, Tacoma, Seattle and
other points. at Seattle we occupied the
Methodist pulpit one Sabbath In July.
The Methodist minister in charge would
like to be a Universalist, and says the
Methodists do not give up the sinners
until God does; whereupon, the writer
suggested that they would be long time
giving them up"
I'D 4 II O.-LeWistOn.-In the above
communication Br. Fairchild announces
his return to his parish at Lewiston, and
reports that the outlook for the future is
good, and that the friends consider that
they nov occnpy vantage ground never
before secured. We hope this prosperity
viii continue, and that the young pas
tor may receive all necessary encourage
ment and help from his people.
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HoRsFoRD's ACID PHOSPHATE
In Epilepsy.

Dr.. A. L. Turner, Head Physician. Blooms
burg Sanitarium. Philadelphia. Pa, says:
"Have prescribed il in several hundred cases
of epilepsy, aud always with good results.
As an adjunct to the recuperative powers of
the nervous system know of nothing to
equal it,"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-03

Poor human heart, with human needs,
How many are its broken reeds,
Grasped till the hand in torture bleeds.
Mrs. Elisabeth Cakes Smith
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-01-08

The mountain meteorological stations OF
Europe are said to somewhat excel in their
equipments and appliances anything to DE
found in the western world. Among these
appliances is n superior kind OF arrangement,
or apparatus, for the automatic registration
of sunshine, the results of which are tabu-
lated with reference to the period OF possible
sunshine for each day, the record being SO
much per cent of this total. On the noun
tain top on which the highest Austrian wealth
e. observatory is located is another interest
in" arrangement, namely, a telephone wire
o''r,diNg from the very summit down to the
Via. B. u'v this wire in the summer being
suspcnu,. 70, poles, while in winter on &C
count Of the ll.I,s winds, it is laid upon the
snow, the latter proving good lnsulator, ms
the apparatus works satisfactorily under
these conditions The French, it appears,
have the highest meteorological station III
Europe, and their two largest observatorieS
are, it is claimed, the best appointed in the
world New York Sun.
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An mDroyer Of Land,

It cannot be expected that clover VIII re-
store, unassisted an absolutely exhausted
soil Land must be in a condition to bring
fair crops Of grain before clover can he
sowed upon it to advantage Afterward,
in iudicious rotation, will improve the
soil rapidly. 1t does this in two ways, by
the decay Of its large taproot and by its
absorbing ammonia rapidly from the at
mospherc. The cheapest manure that we
can use after land has been put in proper
condition is clover seed. At the north
clover is Biennial at the south it lasts
for several years. After clover has fairly
gone to seed at the south, if a short rota-
ton is adopted, it will not be necessary
to SOW it again. For instance, in the fol-
lowing rotations: First, cotton or corn;
second, oats; third, wheat; the clover
will spring spontaneously among the
wheat The ground should remain two
years in clover and the rotation then be
repeated. Land thus treated will improve
without further expenditure of manures
Southern CutivatOr.
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A GROUND TRAP.

While the ground trap is not new 'oN.
trivance the accompanying picture is
given for the benefit of readers who may
desire to make one. Take box about
fifteen inches long, ten wide and seven
deep and set in the ground as seen in
the cut The lid may be square piece
Of board or sheet iron. One end Of it
should rest in the bottom of the box at
the extreme end, md the other on the top
of the opposite end Of the box. \ small
peg two and one half inches high, with an
even end, is driven into hole in the bot
tom of the trap. The tlattened end Of u
short forked spindle rests on this peg and
Is held in position by the weight Of the
lid, which rests on small wooden pin.
The bait is thrown into the bottom OF the
trap, which is sprung by the we ght O.:
the bird IA it lights on the spindle.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-01-08

a colt ought to be thoroughly halter
broken at | year old. At > years, having
learned the parliamentary lessons Of being
led about aud handled without fear, an
acquaintance with bit and bride is in
order. Previous to placing any portion
of harness on Il young horse let hill smell
and see it.
The first bit put into horses mouth
should be simple one, such as u plain
bar or iointed snafllc Especially in he
first trials should an easy mouthpiece he
used to induce the animal to take ii fear
lessly Many persons through ignorance
do injury both to the horses temper and
his mouth by using Il severe snatle. 1t is
bad policy to work n horse too early or to
overworh one of any age, Give the colts
light work until they have developed their
powers by degrees.
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ltecent Inventions.

The fall and winter exhibitions have
brought to notice number OF new and
improved labor saving machines and i'm
Elements. At the Vermont state fair an
attraction was the Perkins suliy corn and
potato planter. This is designed to plant
two rows OF corn Mt once and apply the
fertilizer in the drill
a combination roller and grass seed
sower exhibited by the Gouveneur
Machine Co. is also of interest. The roller
Is made of iron. The seeder has force
feed, distributing the seed just in front,
where it will be sufficiently covered as the
roller passes over Il.
A new carriage wheel hub that aims to
keep all water, sand and dust from the
axle tree 10 one Of the new inventions by
w. T. Noulton, Burlington, Vt.
In the dairy department the leading
inventions of recent date are the power
butter worker of Porter, Blanchard &
Sons, Concord, y. H., and the Tester
churn of Cornish, Curtis X Green, Fort
Atkinson, Wis. These were both III opera
ton at the Bay State Fair.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-01-08

Professor F. w. Putnam in paper read
at the recent meeting of the National AcaL-
envy of Sciences in Boston on archaeological
explorations in the Little Miami valley, gives
conclusions reached as to tbs early inhabi-
tants of this continent, His researches show
that there have been at least two types OF
pcople-thoee whose graves are the so-called
ash pits, and those who built mounds over
their chiefs and buried their common people
in trenches--recently discovered by Professor
Putnam himself Both these occupied the
central regions, and spreading northward
were met and conquered by the Indians, who
spread from east to west
1t is understood that Professor Putnam is
preparing a large volume which will doubt
less contain accounts of mnny important dis
coveries he has made in his explorations, and
throw important and new light on the early
inhabitants of North America.
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Facts of Interest,

Drunkenness in New York city has de
creased 30 per cent in ten years.
Nickel lightning rod, are said to be better
than others. They will not rust
1t is said that sweet spirits Of nitre applied
to poison bllsters as a lotion, is quick and
sure remedy for IVY poisoning.
When you hear big yarns about snakes and
bats living in peoples stomachs for years
and then coming out alive-don't swallow
them.
a strong young man recently jumped from
the top of factory chimney, leo feet high,
and lived He balanced himself by hanging
to a raised umbrella.
DR.. J. Strahan Jtters caution against
long continued dosing with mixtures of iron.
maintaining that there is danger OF Intestinal
conCretions being formed
Mr. Charles L. Brace declares that the in
dustrial schools of New York are causing
drunkenness 20 diminish. They take the
children Of drunken and degraded parents
a.. bring them up to respectable trades.
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Hens will not lay when exposed 10 in
clement weather.
The Canadian government has made
provision for number CT experimental
stations for the advancement Of agricul-
ture in the northwestern provinces. Pro
fessor William Saunders, of London, Ont,
has the matter in charge.
The latest advices from the cane grow
ing countries are favorable to full sup
ply Of sugar. In the case Of trees which
bear in alternate years, judicious thin.
ming will often result in considerable fruit
in the off years.
Deep blowing should be confined to rich
lands, and the blowing be done in the fall;
while shallow blowing is best for thin
soils, and should be done in the spring,
leaving the middle course for medium
soils
Lambs can be taught to drink cows
milk by adding TO it oatmeal.
One use for oil tin cans is to cut them
up into strips two OF three inches wide
and tack them over mouse holes in house
or barn.
The present is good time to organize
farmers Clubs and other useful societies.
In dressing poultry for market the loss
in weight is about one third.
Two Of our national scientists have been
recently elected to membership in foreign
societies, Dr. Riley, cnto:nOlOgIst OF the
agriculturist department, being al active
member of the Moscow Imperial Society
OF Natnralists, and DR.. salmon, Of the
National Bureau OF Animal Industry, a
honorary member OF the royal college Of
Veterinary Surgeons In Great Britain.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-01-08

If this request is not beyond the bounds Of Your
question column will Won please to publish "'Ostler
Joe" There is n ttl" hit OF rhyme, something
70 this cti""t: noun * the name; verb, etc;
and 30 Oh through the principles Of grammar;
about eigh, lines in the rhyme, Could you pub
Iish that: SUBSCRIBER
"'Ostler Joe" is too long to print in this
column "Subscribcr' will find the full poem
in the book of selections for readings and
Rotations prepared by Mrs. james Brown
Potter. The little poem on grammar to
which you refer, is probably the following,
whose author is unfortunately unknown
l.
Three little words you often Sc,
Are articles a, an and the.
A nouns the name Of anything,
As school, or garden, hoop or wing.
III.
hdi"ctiycs the kind Of noun.
As, great, small, pretty white or brown
".
Instead Of nouns the pronouns stand go
Her head, his face, Jour arm, my hand
verhs tell something to be done
To read, count, laugh, sing, jump or I'm
VI.
Hos things are done this adv0rbS tell,
A, slowly, quickly, III or well.
VII
ConiunCtons join the words together
As men AMI women, wiud or weather
VIII
The proposition stands before
A noun, as in, or through the door.
TX
The in'rrjec'io1 shows surprise.
A. on nya pr'tfy, All how wiSc
The ahols are called nine parts OF speech,
Which reading, writing. speaking teach
Several questions remain over 10 be an
swer,d " future.l
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Wash Them.

philip the Fair wishes to know what he
can do to prevent an unpleasant odor from
his feet. This is deiicnte question. The
most suitable answer is, wash them There
is not half enough attention paid to bathing
in the community. Persons will let them
selves get all cloSged up with the foul and
diseased emanaions which the SKIN very
sensibly insists on throwing out, expecting
the individual to thereupon remove them
Half the time he does not do it, but some
times writes to the newspapers asking what
he can rub on himself so he VIII not smell
bad.
The answer is plain. Take daily bath, a
good rubbing in soap and water, having care
to rinse the soap suds or. Rub dry. Ii you
do this depend on it there will he no bad
odor from any part Of your body. II your
feet perspire much change your stockings
twice week
Another point about the daily bath is that
ono who makes n habit Of it is not half sc
liable to take cold ~ he who neglects 1t.
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m Rome and unbleac he'd wood ashes

form. Bone and unbleach he'd wood ashes
form complete" fertilizer, though de.
flcient in nitrogen. South Carolina rock,
with kainit and hair or ground leather
would form complete" fertilizer of the
lowest grade, and would chiefly be valu-
able for the potash in the kainit. High
grade sulphGtc and muriate of potash,
pure bone flour or dissolved bone black.
and nitrate of soda, sulphate OF ammonia
and dried blood would form most valu-
able complete" fertilizer. What we
wish to show is that fertilizer may be
complete" IL it cost but IS per ton just
the same az if it cost $50, and that this
word in its technical sense means only
that the fertilizer contains the three lead
ing pant foods. Rural New Yorker.
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Tempcr of Steel.

How is the temper" Of steel gained, how lost
and how rcstoredf INQUIRER.
The most characteristic property Of steel is
the readiness with which it can he "tem-
pcred,' that is to say, made hard OF soft at
will Knives and other steel blades are made
hard and brittle-so that they will take an
edge" as it is called-by heating them, and
then suddenly cooling them. Take an old
steel table knife and experiment OH it. Heat
1t redhot. Let it cool gradually. 1t will be
soft and will bend almost like lead. Heat it
redhot again, Plunge it into cold water, 1t
will come out hard like knife blade once
moro. |, has had its temper lost and restored
to it again, and your question is answered
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-01-08

The following essay, by Mrs. W. f..
Bush, Of Sparta, Wis, won the prize
offered by the Wisconsin Dairymen's uSso-
citation.
Having provided good butter cows; l.
Keep them in clean, warm, ventilated
stables in hot ana cold weather.
O. Treat gently; feed, water and milk
regularly.
3. Food in winter: corn, oats ground,
mix with bran, scald and salt occasion
ally; also carrots, pumpkins, good tlmo-
thy, clover and corn stalks. Avoid tur-
nips, cabbage and decaying vegetables.
4. Food in summer: good pasture and
fodder corn.
3. Pure water at all seasons.
6. Scrupulous cleansing of all utensils.
7. Milk rapidly and quietly in a pail
that strains while milking, or cover the
pail with folds of mosquito netting; re-
strain through both wire and cloth into
deep cans.
8. Reduce and hold temperature at so,
Q. Skim sweet.
10. Keep cream at moderate tempera-
ture until thickened, which indicates
sufficient acidty.
II Air by frequent stirring.
~. Churn in summer In early morning
every other day, Sundays, excepted. In
winter not less than semi-week!y. Tenn
pcrature co..
49, Stop churning when in the granular
state, draw buttermilk and add weak
brine. Place pune white rather thin cloth
in large seamless pan half filed with
brine, then remove butter to the pan.
Gather the cloth with the hand drain,
repeat until no trace Of buttermilk.
4. Butter still in granulcs, salt (pure
dairy one ounce per pound), by sitting
evenly, stirring with ladlc and turning on
cloth.
49, Pacl. Immediately in tubs prey ious,
ly filled with hot brine, then thorough"
cooled.
16. Cover neatly with muslin and set in
in cool, dry place to await shipment.
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PILE LEGHORN COCK.

welcomes this new variety Of Lcghorns,
and describes in detail in The Country
Gentleman the process of their produc-
ton; also, by the aid of picture, their
peculiar markings. The cut here given
represents cock OF this new variety. 1t
will be seen that the bird is of the true
Leghorn shape, but with the markings
like those OF the Pile game, aifording in
all very handsome bird.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-01-08
Queen yictoria's Surname,

Surprising Queen Victoria were to be known
only by her real name, which would apply to her
or to any married woman, what would II hey
d. g.
It is generally supposed that since the queen
Of England is descendant Of tho family OF
Guephs her name would be Mrs. Guelph
But her name is that Of Prince Albert, who
was her husband, and member of the house
of Saxony Nov the name Of that house Is
Victim. Therefore, Queen Victoria, II re-
duced from her position 20 that of an ordinary
married woman, would be simply Mrs
Victim.
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when lacy and gentleman 80 up and down
stairs, which prucudcS: JADE.
In going ~ stairs the gen leman quietly
steps in front Of the lady, and with half
bow prcrades her up the flight. In coming
down stairs, however, the order is reversed,
and the lady goes first. This rule still holds,
though it WI, made in the old days when it
was thought shocking for man TO see wo-
mans foot, at least any further than the end
of her toes. 4 woman's foot was thought TO
be very had thing
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-01-08
HOME MADE sEED DRILL.

The wheel g in cut ought to be about
six inches in diameter-an axle grease box
with the rim knocked OFF makes n good
one. The tin box a. should be about
three and one-half inches in diameter, with
holes in the rim about two inches apart,
made with an awl, as represented by the
dots in the cut. In case this arrange.
ment sows seed too thick wooden peg
can be put in every alternate hole The
handles marked must be of convenient
length, say four OF five feet long The little
legs Il u are to cover the seed and should
be six or seven inches in length. The
rows may be opened with a pointed stick,
or a piece of metal can be put on to run
before the wheel and open the row.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-01-08

AN ORCHID FLOWER WHICH LOOKS
LIKE A WHITE DOVE.

Professor Putnam's Archaeological Ex-
plorations--Two Types OF Frehistorics.
Those who Built Mounds and Those
who Built rits-The Holy Ghost Flower.
There is strange, beautiful orchid, to which
the Spaniards who conquered South and part
of North America gave the name Of the Holy
Ghost flower. The name seemed so appro-
pirate that it has chung to it ever since. 1t
is found rather abundantly in the hot coun-
tries already named, but in the north it is
shy bloomer, and Holy Ghost flower coming
into blossom is something of All event. There
are very few orchid houses in America. The
plants are both tender and troublesome. A
few wealthy persons have isolated plants in
their hot houses, but even these are not COM
mon. The finest collection of orchids in
America is probably in the Botanic Gardens
at Washington When you go to the capital
do not fail to visit the gardens.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-01-08
HOLY GHOST FLOWER.

Orchids are fortified by bees, moths, but
terflies and various insects \ very strange
property belongs to many Of them. Their
bloom takes ON II weird, inexplicable rcsem-
blance To the insect which carries the pollen
from one flower to another. In case of the
sphinx moth til S resemblance is startling
In the illustration before us the resemblance
Of the heart Of the flower to a white dove Is
very marked. That is whence the plant gets
its name The full blown flower presents the
appearance shown in the picture. Before the
bud is fully opened sort Of hood covers the